Matamata Soaring Comp Day 1 & Sports Class Day 5

All in all a great day. The ridge was just working, thermals were OK, combine the two and you shoot up like a rocket. David Hirst submitted a weather forecast from Auckland and it came out pretty bang on.

A promising start to the morning.

The day in numbers:

3 Tasks for 3 classes5 Landouts22 Competitors1 Wheel up landing (Bill couldn't get his gear down, but it's all fixed now) Number of restarts: quite a few!

The Matamata Soaring Centre competition is now on, as well as the Sports Class Nationals, making 22 competitors total, and lots of people flying up and down the ridge.

The tasks today were set to 3 hours AAT tasks, a number of people found it tough going, getting low.

Well done to Nelson Badger for starting, landing at Te Aroha, getting back to the airfield quick with Les, then restarting the task again. Quite a few others restarted the task also after getting too low, or stuffing it up somehow. Nelson ended up landing around 6:30pm.